Mainly because when a loved one asks to have their ashes dumped into the sea, it's probably best to open the urn, pour the ashes into the water, and then take the urn home and use it to keep spare nuts and bolts or something.

Since the urn had air in it, Mena says, it failed to sink. And someone's dead relative was floating around the Intracoastal Waterway like a warning buoy.

Mena wasn't a part of the original cremation but took the urn from the man who found it and hopes the relatives or next of kin will show up to claim it.

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